don't autostart dropbox?

Hi all

I've installed the Dropbox for Nautilus plugin... now whenever I boot up my computer, the dropboxd service starts too..
How can I remove this autostart, anyone that uses it who knows?... Can't see the service in sysv-rc-conf, and neither in

Re: don't autostart dropbox?

I have the opposite problem. Suddenly, my dropbox has stopped launching at start up and I have no idea why. It worked for a few days and suddenly stopped. I am running Intrepid, 32 bit. Any way to get it to start again at startup

Re: don't autostart dropbox?

Originally Posted by wobblyheadedjon

I have the opposite problem. Suddenly, my dropbox has stopped launching at start up and I have no idea why. It worked for a few days and suddenly stopped. I am running Intrepid, 32 bit. Any way to get it to start again at startup

Re: don't autostart dropbox?

Originally Posted by wobblyheadedjon

no, and I have no idea how to manually start dropbox either...so I'm kind of up the river...

Try to reinstall the dropbox nautilus extension and to remove the dropbox daemon folder (rm -fr ~/.dropbox-dist), then quit nautilus nicely and launch it again (nautilus -q; sleep 2; nautilus) to see if it gives you any error message.

Re: don't autostart dropbox?

Originally Posted by infinito

Try to reinstall the dropbox nautilus extension and to remove the dropbox daemon folder (rm -fr ~/.dropbox-dist), then quit nautilus nicely and launch it again (nautilus -q; sleep 2; nautilus) to see if it gives you any error message.

That seems to have taken care of my problem. At least it loaded at start this first time around. thanks a ton. Good luck on figuring out the origional problem of this thread.